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Titanium
PowerBook remade into a desktop computer
- turned out pretty nice, if I do say so
myself
Not
really a hack - packaging horror
- stuff arrives intact mostly - this is about those
times it doesn't
MCE
Wallstreet optical takeapart
- details revealed about rare MCE expansion bay
module
TiBook
external antennae
dual
G4 heatsink
- Lacking a proper dual cpu heatsink I modded my
single cpu sink
Fried
chip in a DVI TiBook!
- Blank white LCD on a 667 DVI 'Book, toasted chip
and a solution
Naked
Blue and White!
- Shorn of its polycarb cladding, a nude B+W is
rather lovely in an industrial sort of way
Optical
drives in the post-EBM Apple portables!
- Original drives and bezels list (with Apple PNs!),
plus replacements and upgrades
PowerBook
Titanium display takeapart and related
- TiBooks break LCDs, hinges, here's a way to get
the glued-together display assembly apart to fix
them
PowerBook
Video Display Subsystems
Big
drives in SCSI-based PowerBooks?
- SCSI to IDE adapter, some infos
Twentieth
Anniversary Macintosh LCD driver board
- Finally got a TAM, here's a goodie from
inside!
Sandblaster!
PowerBook
Wallstreet hinges
- Yet Another Display Hinge Repair solution
PowerBook
Titanium as a desktop Mac
- TiBook with broken display hinges repurposed as a
compact desktop Mac. I asked at the time I originally
wrote this - New G5 iMac to look something like
this? Turned out to be pretty darn close
PowerBook
Expansion Bay Module upgrades and hacks
Battery
Reset on Pismo hack
- a hack in progress - which on later review appears
to be unworkable
wifi
card data transfer speed tests
- I measured data transfer rates from my LAN server
using 10BT, an orinoco Silver PC card (and an internal
AirPort card on the Pismo) on 3 PowerBooks - PPC PB500,
PB3400 and Pismo and charted the results.
Apple Pro Mouse
decorative 'hack'
- I had to open a Pro Mouse to repair its broken USB
cord and used the opportunity to create a decoratively
customizable computer pointing device.
Apple Pro Mouse
variable spring tension mechanism
- Ever wonder how works the clever mechanism with
which the Pro Mouse varies its springyness?
Network
Access disk for PPC Macs
- Boot a Mac from a NAD floppy, allows Appletalk
server access to copy files, load an OS, etc. all from
floppy-booted Mac.
PowerBook
5300 power jack replacement
- where I replace the crappy original power
connector with a regular-style PowerBook power
connector. Hey, whaddya know?!?! It works great!
:-)
PowerBook
3400 cpu-to-bus ratio settings (jpeg
image)
- I couldn't find this stinkin' info anywhere, so I
posted it here! Anyone know the settings for
faster-than-240mhz?
PB3400
and cardbus cards
- where I chisel the corner off a FW2Go PC card,
plus a snap of a Wallstreet's cardbus cage
MacOS
8.5/6/9.1 on PPC-upgraded Macs
- I'm running MacOS 9.1 on my both my PBs
540c/PPC-167mhz, figured I'd share. :-)
PowerBook
1400 RAM install
- Installing RAM into PowerBooks 1400
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